The Historic Village In Illinois That’s Stuck In the 1800s

There’s a historic village in Illinois that will take you back to a time before even your grandparents were born. This ancient world is full of vintage wonders that will astound and delight kids of all ages.

Explore a reconstructed old town and take a peek back in time to what life was like without electricity, cars, or fast food. Keep scrolling for the story of how this all came together.

Independence Pioneer Village is located in Oakland. It is a slight replica of life in the 1800s and features a museum of log cabins fit for Abe Lincoln.

The structures were dismantled piece by piece, log by log, and marked before being reassembled in Independence village using as many of the original pieces as possible. Some had rotted away and were no longer useful.